Adam Marc
@adammarc.bsky.social
Stories shape systems. Systems shape lives. I write about mortality, AI, and politics. Glioblastology + Adam Marc Writes.
The moment that stayed with me: An EMS captain looked at my POST form and said, “This is what this means.” Hospice isn’t giving up. Hospice is consent being honored. New piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/glioblas...
The Seizure and the Lesson
I didn’t feel the seizure coming.
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Certainty has become a drug. Scapegoating is the side effect. New essay on fear, domination, freedom open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
Escape From Freedom in an Age of Scapegoating
Certainty has become a drug in American life, and scapegoating is the side effect. Drawing on Fromm, Camus, evangelical moral psychology, and the rhetoric of domination, this piece examines why freedo...
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Politicized stupidity isn’t stupidity at all—it’s the fear of what we’d have to confront if we knew better. My latest piece explores ignorance as belonging and learning as moral repair. 🔗 “The Politics of Not Knowing” — Adam Marc Writes open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
The Politics of Not Knowing
How willful ignorance became identity, and why learning together is the last act of civic repair.
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“We traded the divine right of kings for the consent of the governed. Somewhere along the way, we forgot: consent means restraint.” New essay: No Kings, No Idols. On Trump, the Framers, and the courage to yield. #NoKingsDay #Democracy 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
No Kings, No Idols
From divine right to executive order, America’s founding paradox returns. Re-signing the social contract begins with learning to yield.
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New post: Smudged Thumbprint. This one’s about scans, language, and the strange space between treatment and disease. Nine years in, I’m still learning to live in that space. If you’re going through it, I see you. #glioblastology open.substack.com/pub/glioblas...
Smudged Thumbprint
It’s worse—and it may be tumor-worse.
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“Working class, my ass. Give us some truth.” New post: “Give Us Some Truth.” open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
Give Us Some Truth
Up and down, not left and right: class, courage, and the myth of populist rebellion.
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Early Christians were persecuted because they resisted empire. MAGA calls itself persecuted while wielding power. That’s not Christianity under attack. That’s Empire in red hats. New essay: A check on Christian Nationalism from a Jewish POV. open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
MAGA Is the New Empire
Christian nationalism forgets its Jewish beginnings—and why they still matter
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Rosh HaShanah remembers creation not as something finished, but as a question posed again each year. What kind of world will we create this year—through what we excuse, through what we repair, through what we dare to begin again? open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
Generation Interrupted
A High Holidays D’var on Cellular Memory, Civic Repair, and Belonging
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“I’m not here to pass Parsons’s test. I showed up on Capitol Hill not to play ‘good patient,’ but to remind lawmakers that patients who will never fold neatly back into ‘normal’ still deserve more than a shrug.” open.substack.com/pub/glioblas...
Deviant Democracy
On politics, patient advocacy, and why I show up
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In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
While I’ve never entertained world leaders, neither have I invited any guests to view my hat collection.
New essay just out: Mass deportation isn’t just cruelty—it’s cultural erasure. And remembrance? That’s resistance. This post explores identity, oral history, Jewish diaspora, and the ethics of memory. For the estranged, the inherited, the in-between. open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
An Ethnography for the Estranged
Mass deportation is not just cruelty—it’s betrayal. And remembering who we are is how we resist it.
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The uniform isn’t your belonging. The flag isn’t your story. The Homeland Worth Defending → reclaiming heritage without domination. open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
The Homeland Worth Defending
ICE wants you to guard the gate. I want you to find the door back to your own story.
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Trump says violent crime in DC is out of control. It’s actually at a 30 year low. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low
Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...
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Structural gaslighting isn’t a glitch in the system. It is the system. My latest essay tracks how the deliberate erosion of trust has become a mode of governance. #politics #philosophy #truth open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
Gaslit Society
Gaslighting isn’t just interpersonal—it’s institutional. In this essay, I trace how epistemic sabotage has become a strategy of governance. The danger isn’t just confusion. It’s collapse.
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ah yes stop and frisk, which was ruled unconstitutional and thus not "perfectly legal," would have for sure prevented the nevada resident from bringing his south carolina manufactured ar-15 into manhattan and the senator from louisiana is for sure in a position to decide for the residents of nyc
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Kennedy: New York is going to have to face is the issue of whether we should bring back more aggressive stop and frisk which is a perfectly legal law enforcement tactic
AI ethics needs more than fear or fluency. It needs philosophy. New from Adam Marc Writes: The Dialogue Is the Data We can’t access the machine. But we can study the conversation. Slow AI. Conversational Realism. open.substack.com/pub/adammarc...
The Dialogue Is the Data
An argument for AI ethics that begins with conversation—not simulation.
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DESPITE the city of Indianapolis allegedly having a program to house ppl They are CLOSING the homeless in Fountain Square without offering those ppl anything but a hard time CC
⚡️Zealotry. Inheritance. Power. This week’s Torah portion (Pinchas) is wild—and deeply political. I recorded a short commentary unpacking priestly propaganda and what it means to read sacred text from the fringe. 📽️ 10 min | beard included
Priests, Plagues, and the Problem with Zeal: Pinchas from the Fringe
Zealotry, priestly politics, and five bold daughters—Parashat Pinchas has it all. In this short video, I unpack the power dynamics behind the text, spotlight the Priestly source, and reflect on what it means to read Torah from the fringe. Respectable beard included.
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“Indiana’s Camp Atterbury will be used to detain immigrant detainees under a new federal plan revealed this week by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.” Raising my hand in strong opposition to constructing concentration camps in my state. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/18/d...
Defense letter confirms Indiana's Camp Atterbury to be used for immigrant detention • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana’s Camp Atterbury will be used to detain immigrant detainees under a new federal plan revealed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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“In his final weeks, he wasn't just doing comedy; he was bearing witness. When Trump manufactured crises or pushed authoritarian policies, Colbert was there to say "this isn't normal." Night after night, in homes across America.
“A senior official at the National Cancer Institute confirmed that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent an email across the NIH instructing that any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported up the chain..” (March 2025) WTAF kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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"Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE." Such an assault on vulnerable people www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/i... via @statnews.com
Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients' personal data, including addresses, to ICE
ICE officials will be given access to 79 million Medicaid recipients' personal data, including home addresses, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the U.S., according to an agree...
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"'The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,' one of the two Guard officials said. 'This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.
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“President Donald Trump wants lawmakers in Texas to redraw the state’s congressional district map to give Republicans five more House seats, he told reporters Tuesday.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Trump wants five-seat pickup from redraw of Texas congressional map
“There could be some other states we’re going to get another three, or four or five in addition. Texas would be the biggest one.” he said Tuesday.
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WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.
"Almost 9 in 10 U.S. adults, 85%, favor a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, and nearly as many say they favor a path to citizenship for all immigrants in the country illegally as long as they meet certain reqmnts." apnews.com/article/immi...
How US views of immigration have changed since Trump took office, according to Gallup polling
A Gallup poll shows a substantial jump in the share of Americans who view immigration as positive for the U.S. since President Donald Trump took office.
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cnn editor: u got that story on ice? cnn reporter: sure did boss, real fuckin hypernormalized, just like u asked cnn editor: first of all, i love it
Analysis: Meet the new national police force | CNN Politics
The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren’t afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers, and pluck nonviolent undocumented immigrants off the street is about to become the best-funded federal police ...
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